The pathway is just as an important feature in an outdoor space as any other facet of outdoor living. Being able to enter, exit or maintain the experience while getting from point A to point B is crucial and most of the time is forgotten about in new outdoor living areas, especially here in the Bay Area. Keep it consistent and the experience won’t end abruptly before it’s supposed to.

We wanted to share an article from the ALSA about Green Infrastructure. Take a min to read 📖. The idea that nature is also infrastructure isn't new. But it's now more widely understood to be true. Nature can be harnessed to provide critical services for communities, protecting them against flooding or excessive heat, or helping to improve air and water quality, which underpin human and environmental health. When nature is harnessed by people and used as an infrastructural system it's called "green infrastructure." Green infrastructure occurs at all scales. While it's often closely associated with green stormwater management systems, which are smart and cost-effective, it's really bigger than that.
Green infrastructure can be a centerpiece of smart regional and metropolitan planning, ensuring communities have a livable environment, with clean air and water, for generations to come. Green infrastructure can be designed to address the needs of wildlife, which are increasingly threatened by climate change, providing systems of corridors or greenways to enable movement through human settlements. Those corridors are often beautiful places that people want to live near, too.
Green infrastructure is also park systems and urban forests. The message here is that trees are a critical piece in green infrastructural systems and shouldn't be discounted in favor of other technologies.
Constructed wetlands are another way to harness nature to manage water locally and provide wildlife habitat.
Lastly, at the site-scale, smart communities are using green infrastructure for transportation systems (green streets), and green roofs, which can can bring the benefits of nature to the built environment. .
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Make sure to pick up the latest copy of the @scbiznews and read about an exiting project that we are so happy to be a part of! We are proud to be the landscape architects for the renovation of Chicora Elementary School! This is a wonderful project focused on the needs of our local community.